A Day Without Me

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  1. TheXboxHub
    Sep 8, 2021
    60
    With more to say and a grander vision, A Day Without Me could have risen above its more ramshackle elements. Instead, we emerged with some disconnected but memorable moments of horror, and little else.

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  1. Xbox_Alive
    Sep 14, 2021
    6
    A Day Without Me is a puzzle adventure game that you have to find out where everyone is, why are you alone in the city, why are there so manyA Day Without Me is a puzzle adventure game that you have to find out where everyone is, why are you alone in the city, why are there so many oddities in the city. You just woke up and without knowing it, you were the only person left in the city. Sounds cool right? The game starts with you trying to turn off an alarm that is coming from a computer in the next room that’s locked. A standard puzzle that does makes logical sense. If not for the obnoxious audio from the alarm, I would say this was a good opening for the game. Unfortunately this is the only puzzle that makes sense. Once you open the door to the room and gain access to the computer, it gives you a puzzle that can only be saved by trial and error. This is how most of the puzzles in the game are. There is a puzzle later in the game that kills you for not doing the sequence right but the only way to be aware that there is even a sequence is to die. While there are moments of audio that make you want to put down your headset, there are moments of quiet. The contrast between loud obnoxious audio just makes the quiet feel off and out of place. There were points where I thought there were issues with my headset because of the audio in the game. The game could benefit from some form of background music, although it could be intentional by the developer, it just felt off to me. There is a chance that the game does have background music but it just didn’t load into the game when I was playing but I’m not sure because I tried multiple plays since the game is so short. These issues aren’t really doing the game any favors. The one saving item is that the game is short. Short enough to be completed in approximately an hour and that is if you know what you are doing. But much of the game is you going from point to point. Sometimes the path from A to B is needlessly stretched out by obstacles in the way. You can sometimes walk for minutes just to reach a puzzle that can be solved in seconds. I understand there is a need to pad out the game but the walking back and forth just made the entire process feel like a chore. And after all that walking and after all that puzzle solving, I still ended up learning very little about the story. I think this is what turns me off me the most. A Day Without Me starts out as a mystery game. Throughout your journey, you learn close to nothing about the said mystery. You solve puzzles that are somewhat tied to the mystery, but there’s no answer to who, what, where or why to be had. The final sequence makes you question what happened even more. Maybe I’m dense and missed the bigger message in the game. For the price of admission I can’t complain about the length but the game is a bit awkward in the end. If you’re up for some quick achievement points, or enjoy short unusual games like this head on over to the Xbox digital games store and give it a download.… Full Review »